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#1 2010-03-05 19:39:03

pendor
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Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Hello!
I´ve got a laptop with Arch, a MSI VR340, and I´ve never been able to make the scroll area of the touchpad work. I´ve tried a lot of "solutions" that appeared in the forums, to no avail. After trying an Ubuntu 9.1 Live CD, I noticed that the scrolling area worked from the start, so it´s not a hardware problem.
Never could get gsynaptics to work, by the way, with the known SHMCONFIG not set message. Tried setting that but got no results at all.
I´m using Arch64 up to date.
Any tips?
Thanx

Last edited by pendor (2010-04-11 16:44:44)

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#2 2010-03-05 19:55:17

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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Did you try to set it manually in the xorg.conf?

I am using Arch 64 bit on my laptop, too and "synaptiks" tool works great for me


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#3 2010-03-05 23:47:34

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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Ommm, have you tried using the full configuration and working from there?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syn … figuration

Works for me fine on with my trackpad.


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#4 2010-03-06 12:44:00

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Synaptiks does not work complaining of driver not loaded... And the module is not listed with lsmod.
I'll try the .fdi approach, seems this seems hal-related. Weird thing is that the touchpad works, except the scrolling area...

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#5 2010-03-07 15:39:34

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

No results at all, using that .fdi file. Any other idea?? It's probably something very silly, but....

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#6 2010-03-07 15:49:51

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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Go look at the ubuntu configuration files and compare them to your arch ones?

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#7 2010-03-08 21:10:19

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

I took only a brief look, but Ubuntu seems not to use a xorg.conf in /etc/X11; so, where do you think I should check? Which files?

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#8 2010-03-09 04:19:38

sonay
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

install kcm_touchpad, works for me.

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#9 2010-03-09 11:15:51

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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Based on my arch system I think you should look into these files:

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics_options.fdi
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi

I think the first one is not there by default on arch, I use it to overwrite some default settings.

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#10 2010-03-12 19:22:44

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

I´ll see that this weekend and post the results. Thanx everybody!

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#11 2010-03-17 23:36:44

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Hmm, those files don't show up after booting ubuntu.
Any other suggestions?

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#12 2010-03-18 10:18:57

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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

pendor wrote:

I took only a brief look, but Ubuntu seems not to use a xorg.conf in /etc/X11; so, where do you think I should check? Which files?

Since that works in Ubuntu, have you tried just going without a xorg.conf in Arch?  It works well for me.


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#13 2010-03-24 03:27:15

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Well, that kinda worked. Now the scroll area works as expected... But, the tap-to-click no longer works. Even thou I select that in gsynaptics, it doesn't work. Sigh.... I don't if mark this as solved or only half-solved.
Thanx anyway to all who posted.

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#14 2010-03-28 15:30:29

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

But finally, after 2 yaourt -Syu, the infamous touchpad stopped working at all!
So, I reenabled the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, because I'd rather use it without scroll capabilities, that not being able to use it at all. Darn thing.
Any ideas most welcome (I'm even thinking in install Ubuntu on this laptop and just keep Arch in the desktop, that's how I feel).

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#15 2010-03-30 01:46:52

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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Just an idea based on a problem with my touchpad that I just solved (on an Asus Eee 1005PE):

Make sure xorg is actually loading the driver.  The fast way is

synclient -l

If not, look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for the line

Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"

and just comment it out.

Then you could comment out the synaptics stuff in xorg.conf and use hal to manage the driver properly.

I used this to get two-finger scrolling working, which is far superior to edge-scrolling IMO.


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#16 2010-03-31 11:40:15

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Worth trying. I´ll test that tomorrow and post the results.
Thanx!!

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#17 2010-03-31 23:42:27

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

It does not works, it kills the touchpad.
Are there any fdi files (related to the toucpad) that should be erased or modified???

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#18 2010-04-08 11:38:20

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Anybody? Any suggestions?

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#19 2010-04-08 11:49:16

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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

don't waste too much time, it will change again with xorg 1.8.
Jan has already built it and put it in a dedicated repo, to test it, just add:

[xorg18]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

in /etc/pacman.conf on the top of all other repos.

you'll find your touchpad configuration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

original announcement:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 16387.html

bash made a post about his move to xorg 1.8 and synaptics configuration:
http://www.deelab.org/bash/2010/04/xorg … iguration/

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#20 2010-04-09 12:41:34

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

Thanx a lot, dude!!!
I´ll check that!

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#21 2010-04-11 16:43:46

pendor
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Re: Touchpad woes [SOLVED!]

That recipe did the trick!!!!!
The f*cking touchpad is working like a charm!!!
And some weird behaviours in Gnome (wrong locales, menus don't deploying among other things) were corrected by uninstalling kdemod, that is a great DE but maybe it's better on its own. Back to well-known and loved Gnome+Compiz.
Thanks a lot again, bangok!!!!!

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